AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Among The University of Alabama's contributions are materials on early 19th century Mobile, Alabama; General William Gorgas and yellow fever; the Tuscaloosa Service Men's Center during World War II; Civil War letters; 19th century sermons; steamboat records; and a letter written by a survivor of the 1813 Creek Indian attack on Fort Mims. This collection represents The University of Alabama's contribution. Click here to access the central AlabamaMosaic site.

Four photographic albums from 1902 depict different aspects of coal and iron production of the Central Iron and Coal Company in Alabama; from mining to building a furnace, and transporting the material by train, as well as workers living areas, offices, and stores .

The University of Alabama yearbook, The Corolla, was first published in 1893 and has been published every year since that date. Various issues are currently being digitized. To learn how you can help, visit the Corolla Digital Initiative web site or contact .

This collection from the 1920s includes Claudia Merle Summerville's photo album, letters from Miriam Cunningham, and pictures and photo album of Frances Guess. This collection documents a period when Summerville and Cunningham taught school at Highland Institute in Guerrant, Kentucky.

The Hugh Davis Papers document the life of a 19th-century attorney and plantation owner in Marion, Alabama. The digital collection includes three of his farm journals, containing records regarding slaves and plantation life as well as daily entries for farm operations for the years 1848-1862.

Sponsored by The University of Alabama Student Government Association, the student-run Emphasis Committee organized annual symposia that featured such speakers as Robert F. Kennedy, Abraham Ribicoff, Dean Rusk, Strom Thurmond, and Roy Wilkins. Represented here are select programs, digital audio and transcripts of speeches. RealPlayer is needed for playback of the speeches. Click here to download the free version of RealPlayer.

A historical work of art, in copper-plate etching, containing forty plates, illustrating the life of the Union Armies during the late Rebellion. Etchings drawn by artist Edwin Forbes (1839-1895). During the Civil War, Forbes was hired by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper to cover the Army of the Potomac from 1862-1864.

Collections pertaining to Native American language and culture. Currently features two, late-nineteenth century handwritten ledgers on the Choctaw language.

Performance recordings of organist Dr. Harald Rohlig, retired Professor of Music at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama. Most recordings in the collection were made at Memorial Presbyterian Church, Huntingdon College, or St. John's Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

This collection contains digitized sheet music of many kinds - ballads, popular songs, and dances such as marches, mazurkas, polkas, schottisches, etc. - published prior to 1923.

The Eugene Allen Smith Collection spans more than four decades from the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. The collection depicts Smith's numerous field trips as a professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at The University of Alabama from 1871-1913, and as State Geologist from 1873-1913.

Civil War diary of George S. Smith, sergeant in Company C of the 48th Ohio Regiment, covering his service in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas, 1863-65.

The Majorie L. Smith Slide Collection depicts changes to cotton agriculture in the early 1960s. This collection is comprised of 71 color slides taken by Majorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama showing various stages of cotton production; from picking cotton by hand to machine harvesting and processing in the cotton gin to making the bales ready for market.

This collection is comprised of 30 photographs depicting antebellum architecture in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the 1920s. Photographs were taken by Sydnia Keene Smyth for her master's thesis in 1929.

This collection contains digital resources that document the history of The University of Alabama since it opened in 1831. A variety of resources in different formats depict the people, organizations, places, and events that shaped its history as it evolved and grew from an all-male institution with a small enrollment to a diverse student population of more than 20,000 students.

In 1796, French general and military engineer Georges Henri Victor Collot descended the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on a spying mission from the French government. Returning to France in 1800, Collot died in 1805. His Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale was published in Paris in 1826. We bring you the atlas.

Funded by an NEH grant, this project focuses on black working class social history of Birmingham, Alabama prior to World War II. It explores the implications of the immigration of blacks from the rural Deep South to urban metropolitan areas and for understanding the social history of first and second generation black wage earners within the context of urban-industrial development and social change in one New South city.